OPINION: Corruption of the Mind

OPINION
Corruption of the Mind
Still cherished by many Westerners is the
hope that one fine day a summit meeting will melt Russian suspicions of
the West and bring about a lasting thaw in the cold war. Last week
Russian Expert George Frost Kennan, 53, onetime U.S. Ambassador to
Moscow, longtime favorite foreign-relations philosopher of U.S. liberal
Democrats, did a thorough demolition job on the summit-meeting idea.
Currently a visiting professor at Oxford University, Kennan argued in a
speech broadcast by the BBC that summit meetings with the Russians are
doomed in...